Everything we've learned about telling real media from synthetic media, written for people who don't work in forensics. Each guide is a checklist you can run yourself, with the reasoning behind every step.
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Nine practical checks — hands, text, reflections, skin texture, backgrounds, file data and more — that reveal whether a photo was generated by AI.
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A frame-by-frame checklist for face swaps, lip-sync fakes and fully generated clips, including what compression and re-uploads hide.
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Plain-English explanation of metadata checks, compression forensics, texture statistics and model classifiers — plus the honest limits of each.
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